387. And with death, signifies the consequent extinction of spiritual life. This is evident from the signification of "death," as being the extinction of spiritual life (See above, n. 78, 186). That this is what "death" here signifies is evident from the series of things in the internal sense; for it is said that "there was given unto them power to kill with sword, with famine, and with death;" and "sword" signifies falsity destroying truth, "famine" the deprivation of the knowledges of truth and good; thence "death" signifies the extinction of spiritual life; for where falsity reigns, and where there are no knowledges of truth and good, there is no spiritual life, for spiritual life is acquired by means of the knowledges of truth and good applied to the uses of life. For man is born into all evil and falsity from evil; he is therefore born also into an entire ignorance of all spiritual knowledges; therefore in order that he may be led away from the evils and consequent falsities into which he is born, and be led into the life of heaven and be saved, he must needs acquire the knowledges of truth and good, by means of which he can be led into spiritual life and become spiritual. From this series of things in the internal sense it is evident that "death" here signifies the extinction of spiritual life; this is meant, too, by spiritual death.

38. Divine love and Divine wisdom are meant in the Word by righteousness and judgment - Divine love being meant by righteousness, and Divine wisdom by judgment. That is why in the Word, righteousness and judgment are predicated of God. For example, in the Psalms of David:

Righteousness and judgment are the foundation of Your throne. (Psalm 89:14)

Again in the Psalms:

(Jehovah) shall bring forth...righteousness as the light,

And...Judgment as the noonday. (Psalm 37:6)

In Hosea:

I will betroth Myself to you forever...

In righteousness and judgment... (Hosea 2:19)

In Jeremiah:

...I will raise to David a righteous Branch,

(Who) will reign as a king....,

And execute judgment and righteousness in the earth. (Jeremiah 23:5)

In Isaiah:

(He will sit) upon the throne of David and over His kingdom,

To establish it...in judgment and righteousness... (Isaiah 9:7)

Again in Isaiah:

Jehovah will be exalted, for...

He has filled (the land) with judgment and righteousness. (Isaiah 33:5)

In the Psalms of David:

When I shall have learned the judgments of Your righteousness...

Seven times a day I praise You,

Because of the judgments of Your righteousness. (Psalm 119:7, 164)

The same is meant by life and light in John:

In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. (John 1:4)

By life there is meant the Lord's Divine love, and by light His Divine wisdom.

The same is also meant by life and spirit in John:

(Jesus said,) "The words that I speak to you are spirit and life." (John 6:63)